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Garry Winogrand’s Guggenheim grant

by Doug LeMoine on 12 July 2009

Continuing the discussion of interesting and inspirational grant-writing examples, here’s a piece from photographer Garry Winogrand’s Guggenheim fellowship application, 1963: I look at the pictures I have done up to now, and they make me feel that who we are and how we feel and what is to become of us just doesn’t matter. Our [...]

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A man with a shopping bag

by Doug LeMoine on 13 June 2009

The NYT’s Lens blog recently posted a couple of great articles about the photographers who captured the Tienanmen Square protests in 1989. The first offers four riveting oral histories from photographers who captured the “Tank Man” in his moment of defiance, and the second adds a new twist: this amazing image from street level. Disorder. [...]

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